Re: problem copying files from remote machine to local one.

[Michael Albinus]

Pawel <address@hidden> writes:

> Hallo Michael,

Hi Pawel,

> what I want to do:
> copy /scp:remotehost:/root/remotefile.txt to /tmp in my localhost.

[...]

> 2) I am pointing the remotefile.txt and invoke command M-x dired-do-copy: /tmp
>
> This command first of all opens up another shell at remote host with 
> controlling buffer *tramp/scp remotehost*<2> and THEN invokes scp in that 
> remote host's shell:
>
> scp -p remotehost:/root/remotefile.txt /tmp/remotefile.txt

That is an error in Tramp 2.1.5. The asynchronous copy should happen
in a _local_ shell!

Should be fixed already in Tramp 2.1.6, released 2 days ago. Maybe you
give it a try?

> Greetings

Thanks for your detailed analysis, and best regards, Michael.